"The speaker is very insistent that we go all the way."
"I want to do all 12; I’m crystal clear about that."
"We’re not trying to put 40 pills in, trying to hide anything."
"We’re not trying to fool you. I don’t want to give you an excuse to vote no."
"We’re going to write a CR that’s non-objectionable to every quarter as we can make it."
"We’re not putting any DOGE cuts in the CR."
"That's a no-go, that's a red line that we're not changing our position on and they know that."
"I don’t know. I’d have to go back and check."
"We’re close on the numbers. We’re pretty far apart still on trying to limit presidential powers."
"I don’t think you’re likely to see a Republican House and Republican Senate try to limit a Republican president."
"The president has to sign it, so it can’t be something that he decides he doesn’t want to sign."
"Cole argued that Democrats are being unreasonable by withholding support for a deal because of disagreements with Trump’s use of executive powers."